A Day in Sleat

Tuesday was primarily Bird Cherry day for me. I was hoping to find caterpillars of the bird-cherry ermine moth (Yponomeuta evonymella) and failed, but I did find various things on the Bird Cherry:

Phyllocoptes eupadi (mite) galls

Rhopalosiphum padi (aphid)

Taphrina padi (fungus) gall

Woody gall – cause unknown

When I stopped to inspect my first Bird Cherry of the day, I was delighted to find four fine specimens of Neottia nidus-avis (Bird’s-nest Orchid) – a long way from any previously known site for this locally rare plant.

Neottia nidus-avis (Bird’s-nest Orchid)

I caught three micro-moths, one of which (the smallest and least distinctive) turns out to be new to the vice-county.

Carpatolechia proximella (Black-speckled Groundling)

Monochroa tenebrella (Common Plain Neb)

Neofaculta ericetella (Heather Groundling)

Tags: Fungi, Galls, Insects, Moths, Plants